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Revolt and Revolution : The Protester in the 21st Century
No full textIn the wake of the Arab Spring, Time Magazine named ‘The Protester’, 2011s Person of the Year. Revolts, social unrest and demands for systemic change continue to spread from the anti-austerity street marches in Europe and the progressive ‘No Borders’ global movement, to protests against neoconservative and xenophobic populist movements. Histories are currently being (re)written and the immanence and promise of large scale political revolutions is as present today as ever on our planet. As the goals and aspirations of protesters across the world become more heterogeneous and less programmatic, it becomes increasingly hard to say what ‘the protester’ wants and where ‘the revolution’ will take us. This book embraces the ambiguity and heterogeneity of contemporary protest movements, pointing to how the potentials of revolutionary acts reside behind seemingly irrelevant, disorganized outbursts of apparently aimless acts. Giving meaning to the sign carried by a protester of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration: ‘We’re here; we’re unclear; get used to it’
Commons, piracy and property : crisis, conflict and resistance
No full textIn his first month in office, Donald Trump approved a law allowing states to dispose of federal land to private actors. In practice this meant that state parks could be sold to private companies who want to exploit their natural resources for almost no cost. It is significant that one of the first actions that Donald Trump took as a newly inaugurated president was to enable a large-scale enclosure of the commons. This tells of the priority that private property holds and how it can be used to impose a new regime. What we see here is not only a transferral of resources, but a process of property creation: something that used to be a community resource is transformed into a privately owned commodity. While property has always been taken for granted and often seen as a precondition for human civilisation , under the emergence of neoliberalism we have seen a shift from the balance that has long existed between private and common resources. Be it in the material or immaterial world, property creation is now the driving force and rational of progress. This is why we need to pay extra attention to these particular moments where that act of property creation is exposed
Lyricist’s Lyrical Lyrics: Widening the Scope of Poetry Studies by Claiming the Obvious
No full textPoetry is all but absent from Cultural Studies. Most treatments of the genre tend to focus on canonized poets whose work is wilfully difficult and obscure. Alternative histories should be explored, opening up possibilities to view poetry again as a culturally relevant art form. The demotic and popular strain provides a case in point. From the Romantics onwards modern poetry linked itself with oral or folk traditions like the ballad. Socially the most popular of these forms is the pop lyric. Since the 1950s rock lyrics have been studied in Social Studies, Cultural Studies, Musicology and some English Departments, but rarely within the context of Poetics or Comparative Literature. Rap and canonized singer-songwriters like Dylan and Cohen are the exceptions to the rule. Systematic attention to both lyrics and performance may open up current ideas of what a poem is and how it works
2nd International Workshop "Theory and Practice of Open Computational Systems" (TAPOCS 2004)
No full text2nd International workshop on
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OPEN COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS (TAPOCS)
http://www.soclab.bth.se/workshops/tapocs2004
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13th IEEE International workshops on
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: INFRASTRUCTURES FOR COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES (WETICE)
http://siplab.csee.wvu.edu/wetice04
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MODENA - ITALY - 2004.06.14 / 16
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Focus of the international workshop on Theory and practice of open computational systems (TAPOCS) is methodological issues and approaches related to complex information systems research and development.
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Open computational systems can be conceived as complex and dynamic structures of autonomous entities - human and software - that by means of distributed interactions - taking place over both space and time - strive to uphold some global system coherence, mission, and goal. The application domain typically involves collaborative and competitative systems that try to survive and sustain some particular behavior as long as possible, using evolving structures and shared awareness. Examples of such systems include, but are not limited to, dependable infrastructures, networked enterprises, electronic health care, and network centric warfare.
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The workshop emphasizes the interplay between methodological theory and practice of open computational systems as well as its impact on our ability to control and sustain the behavior of such systems. It is therefore important that we develop methodological instruments - frameworks, theories, models, platforms, and tools - that explicitly address system qualities such as control and sustainability of behavior. As such, these instruments should aim at support for both scientists and engineers in their everyday work with experiments and applications of open computational systems.
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The workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in the theoretical and practical domain of open computational systems, in order to discuss current issues, approaches, applications, and trends. In particular, the workshop encourages contributions that address the following topics:
[ theory ] - frameworks
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[ theory ] - models
[ practice ] - platforms
[ practice ] - tools
[ practice ] - systems
[ qualities ] - control
[ qualities ] - sustainability
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Martin Fredriksson ([email protected])
Blekinge institute of technology
Sweden
Rune Gustavsson ([email protected])
Blekinge institute of technology
Sweden
Alessandro Ricci ([email protected])
Università di Bologna a Cesena
Italy
Andrea Omicini ([email protected])
Università di Bologna a Cesena
Ital
On Piracy
No full text"Piracy" is a concept that seems everywhere in the contemporary world. From the big screen with the dashing Jack Sparrow, to the dangers off the coast of Somalia; from the claims by the Motion Picture Association of America that piracy funds terrorism, to the political impact of pirate parties in countries like Sweden and Germany. While the spread of piracy provokes responses from the shipping and copyright industries, the reverse is also true: for every new development in capitalist technologies, some sort of "piracy" moment emerges. This is maybe most obvious in the current ideologisation of Internet piracy where the rapid spread of so called Pirate Parties is developing into a kind of global political movement. While the pirates of Somalia seem a long way removed from Internet pirates illegally downloading the latest music hit or, it is the assertion of this book that such developments indicate a complex interplay between capital flows and relations, late modernity, property rights and spaces of contestation. That is, piracy seems to emerge at specific nodes in capitalist relations that create both blockages and leaks between different social actors.PiracyLa
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Authors, Inventors and Entrepreneurs: Intellectual Property and Actors of Extraction
No full textThe ideas and ideals of authorship and the discourse on property rights that emerged in parallel since the 18thcentury have come to form the bedrock of copyright law. Critical copyright scholars argue that this construction of authorship and ownership contributes to individualisation and privatisation of artistic works that disregards the collective aspects of creativity. It also embodies a certain kind of authorial character-or “author function” as Michel Foucault puts it-imbued with racial and gendered powers and privileges. While the gendered and racialised biases of intellectual property rights are well documented within copyright research, the commodification of ideas and cultural expressions relies on individualisation of creativity that is significant not only to the cultural economy but also to the 20th-century notion of the entrepreneur as the protagonist of capitalism. This article relates the idea of the entrepreneur to the deconstruction of authorship that was initiated by Foucault and Roland Barthes in the late 1960s, and the critique of an author-centred IPR regime developed by law scholars in the 1990s. It asks if and how the deconstruction of the author as a cultural and ideological persona that underpins the privatisation of immaterial resources can help us understand the construction and function of the entrepreneur in extractive capitalism
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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